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Marita van der Vyver was born on 6 May in Cape Town.

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Van der Vyver has lived in France for longer than she lived in South Africa, and yet South Africa is still in a vital sense home, and Afrikaans.

Marita van der Vyver is the author of a dozen novels, a collection of short stories, two collections of humorous essays, picture books for children.

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Marita van der Vyver

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Author of fiction for children, juveniles and adults.

Marita van der Vyver was born on 6 May 1958 in Cape Town.
She attended primary school in Bellville, and high school in Pretoria and Nelspruit.

In 1975, in a national Afrikaans poetry competition for matric pupils, she won a study bursary for four years at the university of her choice. She chose Stellenbosch, where she participated in D.J. Opperman's poetry workshops and was awarded a BA degree, majoring in Afrikaans and French, in 1978.

The following year she acquired an honours degree (cum laude) in journalism, and in 1987, a masters degree in journalism, also at Stellenbosch.
In 1980 she spent a year travelling in Europe, working as an au pair in France and doing va